Re: I was there, I saw the last AWE 64 Gold disappear and become an investment product...

Posted on 2021-06-28, 00:00

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i was in the right place and time at a recycle store and bought it for $50 (plus some other nice things). Ive seen the prices on ebay and cant believe it. But i have seen some of the awe64 value at a reasonable price, anyone know the key differences?

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Re: Intel 8/16 with XT IDE bios

Posted on 2021-03-06, 05:30

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so i ended up getting the TL866II plus programmer. Ive programed my 28C64B with the ide_386.bin. This should match my chip well at a size of 8 kb. Ive padded the end with 0's. Ive tried the chip in 2 different 8/16 cards and in a 386 and 486 machine. I cant get it to boot at all. The only option i …

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Re: Simple Arduino based PS/2 to Serial Mouse Adapter

Posted on 2021-02-21, 02:59

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hi scorp, i tried to build this with a arduino nano every on a breadboard. Im using a prebuilt max232 with the connector attached. It wasnt the exact same configuration so i used wires to connect the connector pins to the max232. Other than that the setup seemed the same as the schematic. The max232 …

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Re: Intel 8/16 with XT IDE bios

Posted on 2021-02-16, 19:21

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thanks, just knowing the pin alignment is a great help. Makes sense now why those are marked NC. I was wondering which had to line up right gnd or vcc. my idea was to try and use a pic processor to program the flash eeprom with a host pc over serial. I already have the pic tools so thought it might …

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Intel 8/16 with XT IDE bios

Posted on 2021-02-12, 00:25

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I have a couple of these cards and i plan to use one to boot off of compact flash on a 386SX. I found the wiki page ( I think i was little too quick) and just ordered some AT28C64's which are 28 pin: Boot ROM This card's boot ROM socket takes a standard 32-pin EEPROM chip, as well as 28-pin EEPROM …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-12-04, 03:24

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by Pickle

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has anyone run unisound on a laptop? I tried to run it on my dell latitude cp which has the crystal CS4237B and reports no cards detected. I honestly have no idea if its connected over pci and that the reason. but i use cwdinit to start the pnp setup and cwdmixer to set the volume with no problem

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Re: multi threading

Posted on 2018-08-16, 14:15

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Actually there are some cases that multithreading can help for instance a long time ago there was a device called the GP2X. It actually had 2 arm cores, the second core was limited but could so some processing in parallel. Another user created a method of running the OPL emulation on the second core …

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Re: FastDosbox 1.6

Posted on 2014-02-19, 15:24

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one possibility for some optimization is using the gpu to do the scaling, for instance in my pandora build I render with no scaling and use the 2d hw scaler to fill the screen. This helps get a bit more speed, but doesnt seem to be the complete answer to the speed up claims.

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Re: FastDosbox 1.6

Posted on 2014-02-18, 15:17

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I wonder if people are paying $1 to have the dynamic core turned on for them...

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Re: Building a 32-bit DosBox installation on Linux Mint

Posted on 2013-10-30, 14:07

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to compile a 32 bit build with 64 bit compilier add -m32 to the CC flags and to the LD flags.

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Re: Dynrec - ARM backend update

Posted on 2013-09-08, 19:07

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Why didnt this make the svn, its been ages since it was posted and it works.....

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Re: Can not seem to get Catacomb 3D to run.

Posted on 2013-07-16, 15:53

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Still doesnt mean the data is corrupt or incomplete, which is likely as i would expect your installing off 3.5 floppies. My recommendation is to buy the DRM free electronic version on gog.com. Its very cheap and you also get all of the episodes.

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Re: Patch: Mipsel32 dynarec fixes - Dosbox on GCW-Zero handheld

Posted on 2013-03-12, 16:42

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Yeah i lurk on here time to time ;-) I would agree its fragmented for older devices, but for currently produced devices its very small. Its ether the pandora or the gcw. Pandora has actually stabilized with the new production. There are no more waits if you want one. Price is still pretty high. It …

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Re: Patch: Mipsel32 dynarec fixes - Dosbox on GCW-Zero handheld

Posted on 2013-03-12, 14:26

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HunterZ, i have a early prototype and its much faster than the wiz/caanoo. It would be a nice replacement. Its also an important device as something is needed to fill the void GPH has left (since they quit game devices).

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Re: Embed DOS program in DOSBOX install

Posted on 2011-07-18, 13:47

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NSI is a decent windows installer: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

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Re: Dosbox for Android OS

Posted on 2011-05-07, 14:40

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yeah legally its the same situation, but I think those are the situations GPL intended for. Each of those cases there is significant value added with the purchase where with these emulator rebrandings the porter may have put in a couple days/weeks with work that many other could also do.

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Re: Dosbox for Android OS

Posted on 2011-05-06, 21:53

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As a developer that has ported many software for open source devices (including dosbox) I think its total garbage to try to sell software that wasnt written yourself to begin with. Its a total slap in the face of the person(s) who wrote it and devalues the work they did. This has been a reoccurring …

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Re: 3dfx voodoo chip emulation

Posted on 2011-03-14, 13:59

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by Pickle

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maybe glBlendEquation does what you need.

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Re: The fmopl replacement's

Posted on 2010-10-20, 20:49

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thanks for the confirmation, when I can I will post any results I see from the other projects.

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The fmopl replacement's

Posted on 2010-10-20, 18:39

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Looks like this was slipped in 0.73 and i missed it, but anyway I have some simple questions about it. So i can decide if its would worth that effort to use it with some other apps that use fmopl. How much faster over fmopl? Is the API compatible? Which files? (i saw dbopl and opl)

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